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Attention Air Force flight line personnel: beware of propellers!

OK, it is looking more and more like the Air Force under the leadership of General Norty Schwartz is really considering doing the unthinkable from just a couple years ago: getting serious about counter-insurgency airpower. For years, Air Force leaders, their surrogate talking heads, and hired think-tanks...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-12-2008
A new document outlinings costs for acquiring a COIN aircraft, good work by Major David Peeler, Jr.

Many people have come here based on this proposal for acquiring an AT-6 aircraft for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Iraq , Afghanistan , or other places like the Philippines . There have been some of our readers including some friends and colleages, who have looked at the brief and said, essentially...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 02-10-2008
here's an idea: Buy some Hawker Beechcraft AT-6's as a companion trainer for USAF UAV squadrons

USAF File photo Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I flew B-52’s, SAC had a program called “Accelerated Co-Pilot Enrichment” (ACE) with a small number (around 6 as I recall) T-37B “Tweets” assigned to SAC bases with B-52’s and KC-135’s, not sure about the other “heavy types” B-1’s and KC-10’s The...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 02-04-2008
putting to bed the COIN AT-6, but revealing a new idea: The US Air to Air Force

When I launched the concept of Excalibur R&D, LLC , I wanted to present a demonstration of the vision for a process that could bring folks together and allow them to interact, add to the discussion, and collaborate to produce new and innovative concepts that could advance the defense of our country...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-30-2007
Combat Reformers take me to task!

Mike Sparks, an Army Reserve Officer, has contacted me about some of the statements I make on the AT-6C project briefing. Mike is the lead individual behind the site called “Combat Reform” and their main site is here: http://www.combatreform.com/aesindex.htm They are passionate proponents for various...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-16-2007
airpower and counterinsurgency

Photo above of the 6th SOS from awhile back (U.S. Air Force Photograph by Airman 1st Class Ali Flisek) In these threads, via e-mails and phone calls, I have been criticized, quite justifiably so, as to putting the cart before the horse, that is coming up with a material solution (The AT-6 airplane) before...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-04-2007
welcome The DEW Line readers!

who says you can't change a journalists mind? Stephen Trimble of FlightGlobal.com wrote the first commentary to the first blogpost about us: Is this legit or yet another small company draining DOD's R&D dollars with only a killer power-point and a friend on an appropriations committee? I...

Posted to Media Commentary on EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-01-2007
Re: COIN Aircraft

WHB, If you'll look in the brief I prepared on the AT-6 Projects page, you'll see I gave a (admittedly cursory) look at all the theoretical candidates for this mission. There have been lots of posts on the internets and I wanted to at least look at most of them and I think there are only about...

Posted to Proposed Alternative Aircraft (Forum) by Otto on 07-28-2007

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